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Santino's avatar

Lawrence, it is great to hear from you again. I have to say, what a heart wrenching piece you have written,and so true. It has been three years since this covid madness entered the lives of my lovely and I. Since it all began I have had hernia surgery ,of which I waited almost three years for. I recently turned 80yrs old on March the 12th, and was frighten the surgeon was going to put the bio weapon in me while I was under, but that didn't happen. My father in-law turned 96yrs old last November ,and had been in hospital four times for water retention. Each stay has been for 5-7 days until his weight had dropped to where it should be. My wife is the only one looking after the farm and animals as I am on a seven week recovery from the surgery. Still another five weeks to go. I can't find anyone to work here for $20.00 an hour. It seems no one wants to work. Yes , things are tough for us right now. We are worried for our granddaughters ,ages' 11 yrs and 13 yrs old. The parents had the bio weapon injected into them over two years ago, and we are not allowed to see the girls because we didn't take the killer jab. We live in a small community outside of Nanaimo, BC ,and none of our neighbours interact with us . Why? because we are vaccine free. Three of our neighbours have died. We will never know what from, but can only guess. Every day my wife and I take our four dogs for a walk into the bush which is only a short distance away from our farm. I know the dogs pick up our pain of what is happening in our lives. So, it is good that we all take the time to connect in a positive way by connecting with nature. All we have is each other for comfort. We are not alone.God is with us. You are the only person Lawrence I have shared my feelings with, and of course those that will read my comment. Thank you Lawrence again for what you have touched on in your piece of truth. Please take care of yourself. Always your friend, Santino.

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

Funny - I have needed hernia surgery for 3 years now and have been deathly afraid to go near a hospital. I wear a hernia brace that keeps me from having any pain. I don’t trust these white coat murderers. You know how they love to kill off us old folks. We are out all the time with our dogs. Two are elderly (can’t walk distances anymore) and two are younger. The dog in the post is our 9 month old Cane Corso, Sasha. She is extremely sensitive and loving. She can read your feelings in a second.

You are lucky to have a wife. I have my adopted daughter (thank god) or I would be completely alone. We do a lot together and I help her with all kinds of things. I hope I can teach her to survive what is coming. I was raised in the country…so I have a lot of skills. We have houses in town now but want to move to the country. We live in rural Illinois where there are many places we could potentially move to. What I write just comes to me. I don’t plan on writing anything. Suddenly the words just come out of nowhere. And it’s a bit uncomfortable for me to bear my inner thoughts to the world. But it is what I am feeling…so… I share it. If you want to share anything else with me, please feel free to email me at lbutts51@protonmail.com

God Bless you and yours Santino.

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Wendy Leonard's avatar

Hubby also waiting for hernia surgery, finally contacted and having to fill in papers refusing blood transfusion even if it means death ( unlikely) Still no date set but now just waiting for surgeon to find a spot, meanwhile hernia has grown.....

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

I have a brace that I wear - it works. Not fun to wear but I am NOT going in the hospital unless I have to. I don’t trust the White Coat murderers at all.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Somehow I am prepared to think that surgeons are not such pharma shills, so maybe foolishly, would still have surgery. ( If I had to for reasons that made sense to me.)

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

Santino, your post helped my too. My whole family was born in Canada (Timmins Ont) and so I feel great kinship. I was born in Detroit in '64, the only American born in my family. Thank you for holding the line and keeping the faith, whatever faith. Best from Oregon.

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Santino's avatar

Jacquelyn, I thank you for your very kind words. I too was born in Niagara Falls, Canada. Looks like we are both Easterners at heart. I moved out to B.C when just 24 yrs old. However, long before my move here. I attended high school in Huntington Long Island N.Y, and there I graduated. So, I feel a kinship with some people of America, and now you. Please take care of yourself. Always, Santino

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Omi-Cron Kenobi's avatar

"We are not allowed to see the girls because we didn't take the killer jab. We live in a small community outside of Nanaimo, BC ,and none of our neighbours interact with us . Why? because we are vaccine free."

There you have a perfect example of the irrationality of the Covid Cult. Your family and neighbours have taken the "safe and effective" snake oil which Biden and many other high-level gangsters assured the people would prevent them from catching the "killer virus" - and yet despite this "certain" protection from a disease with a 99.8% survival rate, these people are terrified of the unjabbed!

The failure of critical thinking in these people - their total inability to join dots or to spot blatant lies - is staggering.

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Retired Librarian's avatar

I am so sorry to hear of your separation from your children & grandchildren.

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

This is truly horrible. There are SO many tragedies occurring right now. This is just a nightmare. I’m the crazy old unjabbed conspiracy theorist. I told everyone right away to not get the injection. They didn’t listen. Now I wait for the phone call. I not taking any of them in if they get really sick. I am done. Plus I am really sensitive to the Spike proteins coming out of them. I get sick when I am around them.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Very real point about having to care for the clotshotted injured.

And not being able to talk about the source of the injury.

Only anger from them towards me. Silence doesn't do anyone any good either.

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

Yes it is just an lose lose situation. And I am a natural care giver... so this is going to bother me greatly. The pain these criminals have caused is just unimaginably huge. These “sudden deaths” are just ripping holes in hearts that will never be healed. Just all horrible and what nightmares are made of.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

The slow painful suffering for the victim deaths might be worse than the died suddenly.

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

Dr Roger Hutchinson early on said “The lucky ones will die right away” Here is a video about what he has been up to recently https://www.bitchute.com/video/Y1Xt69VSpqy4/

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

There seems to have been lots of nothing burger shots, so a good chance that your granddaughters are okay.

Are reports not saying that 5% are bad batches?

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

The onslaught continues here as well, Lawrence. My latest tactic is to say 'how do you like the genocide? instead of 'hello' when I meet strangers. I would rather offend than be a part of the charade. There is no teaching them, no amount of explanation that can overcome their blindness fueled by the warped and evil media. We have got to stop playing along, coping, or we are complicit.

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

I like that Jacquelyn... like... "Have you gone coffin shopping yet? You look like that might be a good idea". I just stay away from the vaccinated completely. I can't help them. I would like to help them but most of them think I am crazy. Plus I am really sensitive to the shedding.

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

Yes! Other opening line options, Got your will in order? Lost anyone to the jabs?. And to edit the previous in Homer Simpson style, How do you like the genocide SO FAR? On a different tack, I have just made some tobacco tincture from (organic) American Spirit tobacco and equal volume potato vodka (get something you would drink, not grain vodka). Total cost for a quart of tobacco tincture, about 30 dollars. Blocking our nicotine receptors with actual nicotine may offer a line of defense. I too am very sensitive to exposures and try to avoid it but it's near impossible to isolate totally. Just started using tobacco tincture 2 days ago as I am surrounded by the jabbed. Will keep you posted. Haven't smoked in 20 years, so its funny to take nicotine as a medicine. If you pm me at my name (all one word) at protonmail.me, I will send you some if you like. Best

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

Cool - I will send you an email

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Marta Staszak's avatar

jacquelyn, if I may, how do you take your tobacco tincture?

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

Thanks Marta- by the dropperful, ie half teaspoon at a time, no more than a full teaspoon a day. I also suggest it as a morning thing as nicotine -like smoking a cigarette -keeps me up if taken later at night. There are ways to predict the strength of tinctures, but it's best to go real easy on it and test your tolerance personally to nicotine tincture. Again, I used equal parts volume organic tobacco to alcohol. Best

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Marta Staszak's avatar

Thank you. I still smoke (I roll my own with three filters lol, weird I know but can not quit, and with all that - nic.receptors and stuff - ???) I know I can get organically grown tobacco here (not much choice) so will give it a go. Thanks 😊

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

"How do you like the genocide SO FAR?"

I am going to an art exhibition opening tomorrow evening.

Don't tempt me with chat up lines.

LOL

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Duchess's avatar

The Native American's knew tobacco was good medicne for some things..including snakebite.

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jj's avatar

Yes, the natural tobacco is known to heal wounds. The fake industrial tobacco, or, simply, brown stuff can kill you. The system's stats on bad effects from tobacco smoke regards the brown stuff, not the natural tobacco, or anything in nature.

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Butterfly2510's avatar

Is that offer open to anyone? Hehe. If so, let me know!!

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

Yes Butterfly2510, email me and I will send you some nicotine tincture, what the heck, I can manage that. my name all one word at protonmail dot me

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Butterfly2510's avatar

I meant I grow herbs: basil, oregano, dill, mint. I could dry some for you.

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Butterfly2510's avatar

Ok!! You’re the best. What can I send in return? I grieved herbs and could dry them for you? I also have an eBay store and resell ladies used clothes and trinkets or are you a reader? Maybe I could pass along a book to you.

This (what we’re doing) is what our future will be, no doubt.

THANK YOU!! Blessings, peace and brotherly love to you, kind soul!!

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

I like grieved.!...I thought it was a new use of the word....we can work it out, just having a contact in a different state is cool too, I am Oregon. Will look for you

in email...best j

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D J Hadley's avatar

Always enjoy your writings Lawrence. As a non vaxxer, what do you mean when you say you are sensitive to shedding?

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

I feel ill for a couple days, I have my immune system very well cared for. This is something I have been attending to for nearly 40 years now. So I rarely get sick with anything. But when I am exposed to close contact with a vaccinated person, I can almost guarantee you that I will feel tired or a part of my body will feel like it is under attack. I take Ivermectin immediately and continue taking it until I feel better. I also take zinc and Quercetin and an extra dose of Vitamin D3. I have always been able to read what is happening to my body. I am very sensitive to what is happening with it. The vaccinated are expelling exosomes with spike proteins in their breath. If they have recently had a booster, they are spreading lots of exosomes into the air as they exhale. So I have to stay away from them. They literally make me sick…

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Lawrence, is the shedding still a problem from those injected over a year ago?

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

Yes - probably. No off switch on the machine. A recent discovery that there is bacterial plasmids contamination in the injections. So we have gut bacteria now producing spike proteins. So when you are exposed to them - take ivermectin and Nattokinase - you will be ok - best to not be around them at all.

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D J Hadley's avatar

Thanks for the reply Lawrence. The vaccinated make me sick also, but for different reasons. Interesting though but I don't want to become paranoid like the cult members. Maybe I will start sensing them now. I can usually tell an idiot from a mile off, does that count?

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

Glad you enjoy what I write. I never know if I will write anything else. Maybe, maybe not. Time will tell I guess.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

What to do when someone wants a backrub.

Asking for a friend.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Morgellons might be a hoax. Might be.

But do they wash off with soap and water.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Ugh, I just saw a photo of Celine Dion.

Apropos coffin shopping.

Why does she want photo publicity. Is she trying to send us a message. That she's not all right.

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Duchess's avatar

I really admire you. I want to hear how people react when you say this? I would love to have the guts to do it....

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

They so far are speechless, though reactions can be hard to gauge when they are still wearing masks. One fellow was kind of angry, offended. Reality verboten, but coming to a town nearby any day now I suppose. Its amazing how many do not see anything at all in media that supports it, impossible to me after reading about so so many deaths esp. on Mark Crispin Millers site, and hearing what the insurance companies are saying. Folks just do not know about any of it. But I will keep on being the 'rude' one I suppose.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

I've been calling it depop, so I think I could ask how the depop is going for them.

Sounds like a fun euphemism word.

"How do you think that the depop is working out?".

(Just practicing saying it.)

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Duchess's avatar

Well, I admire your courage more than I can express.

You keep on doing it, please. Maybe one day I will have the guts

to say the same :-) Lord knows I'd love to with some people.

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Wendy Leonard's avatar

I always ask that.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Good on you.

I am a bit scary cat and I say naiive like "Do you think that it was the injections?".

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Wow, Jacquelyn, I can see that after these past few years your response has crystallised.

You make my forays into the subject seem very tame.

I applaud you and will think on your approach.

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Cathleen's avatar

Lawrence, I have the same thoughts everyday. When I see families or groups of young people, I wonder about them, "Did they take the shot? Who will take care of their children? Are these young people able to have children of their own when the time comes?" I haven't called some old friends since I wrote to them last Christmas when I didn't hear back from them, because I don't want to know if they have "suddenly and unexpectedly died". You express your thoughts so eloquently. Thank you. I wish I had a dog, but I've got an awesome husband that makes me laugh. :-)

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

Husbands are good too (or wifes)... LOL... Thanks.. I try to express what "we" are feeling through what "I" am feeling. I have to reveal a part of me that always feels a little uncomfortable. It's kind like taking your clothes off in front of someone you don't know. But then people start to tell me that they feel the same way... and I am then OK with what I have written. It's weird how it works. Thanks again...

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

And you are not using a nom de plume, so you are being courageous.

I am late reading your stack, probably commenting too much but really benefitting from it.

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Markker's avatar

My thoughts too. I realise I may never be a grandma, and may end up burying my adult kids. I worry about all the orphans and the terrible things that could happen to them in "care." Most of my vaxxed friends don't call anymore, they refused to look at any articles I sent. Some deaths where I am in UK, mainly elderly so no awakening yet. Mostly infections that linger for months, not covid they say but what was covid really?

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

Yup... except for each other, the unvaccinated are piranhas. We are strangers in a strange land. Yes... most of true Cult of Covid members will die thanking the vaccine that kills them. We can't help them. They are already gone.

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Sadly they are in denial and can't face the fact that they made the wrong decision for themselves and their children. It's unbelievable that British people are in denial when excess deaths are sky rocking there. https://www.globalresearch.ca/excess-deaths-uk-10000-more-brits-dying-experts-not-sure-why/5819719

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

Denial can only last so long. At some point the ones who are left will understand what has been done to them. Now many of the true Cult of Covid members will die thanking the vaccine as they die from the vaccine. They can’t be reached. They are Jim Jones brainwashed.

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And their deaths will be blamed on the next plandemic, which Gates promises is in the works for the next year or two. This next plandemic will be the excuse for deaths that are caused by their first scare and bioweapon injection.

We are being psyopped from multiple directions. Due to these and other diversions, it will be as you say. They will thank their actual cause of disease or death, and buy into the next narrative from their killers like good Stockholm syndrome citizens.

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

I don’t know what is going to happen. You can only kill someone once. They have injected (I guess) 260 million Americans. Now they want turn everything into an MRNA injection. This will kill everyone who takes them. If their aim is control, they can’t control dead people. Maybe they just want kill everyone?

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Santino's avatar

Lawrence, That is exactly what they want to do, kill everyone. One would have to be down right stupid not to see what Gates and WHO is doing.

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Cathleen's avatar

Agree, Lawrence. Many of my husband's colleagues who took the jab are having health issues. Two colleagues BOTH have issues with their kidneys and BOTH took the jab April 2021. They BOTH can't connect the dots that it is from the jab. Really, what are the chances of that happening to them BOTH at the same time?

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Markker's avatar

Sending links from websites such as this, which I check daily to learn different opinions and look at reports of data analysed, etc., has resulted in whomever checking website with Google which warns of conspiracy, right wingers and I get told this. BBC has set up Verify, new fact checking service to prove to us that they only use trusted sources. But journalist running this admits she set up loads of fake accounts on social media to join groups with different views to government! I only discovered alt media 3 years ago, so you have to realise most still get their news from main sources. I will check that link. Any mention of excess deaths in mainstream have offerred ludicrous hypotheses, climate change, etc. Coffee and Covid has an article on 2 studies on excess cancers from Germany. Iain Davis has good article on BBC.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

If I send my "friends* any more articles I won't have any friends.

I do not know anyone else in the city in which I live, who has not been shot up.

There must be some but I have not found them.

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Santino's avatar

Please get a dog. You will not be disappointed. You will probably see some new and funny humor from the husband when the dog and he interact together.

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Cathleen's avatar

oh, we will, as soon as we have a home with a big yard. haha, I can't wait to see the husband/dog interaction :-)

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

It will be fun - there will a lot of homes on the market before long. I imagine prices will go down too. Dead or disabled numbers are going up with each passing day. And you don’t need a big yard. We fenced off the backyard (small) filled it with recycle rubber mulch and then put down big sections of astroturf. Works great. We have big dogs in a small area and no more mud or crap coming in the house. So there you go…

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Rosalind McGill's avatar

Beautiful writing. We have 2 old dogs now. Adopted after my sister in law died from a “ successful “ leukemia stem cell transplant. They had her in isolation but bullied her into getting the vaccine. She lasted 6 weeks after. The dogs are a great comfort to my husband!

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

Terrible Rosalind... These doctors (murders) are just thugs with needles instead of guns. We have 4 dogs. The one pictured is our 9 month old Cane Corso, Sasha. We also have an English Mastiff, a Mini-Pincher and mixed bread dog. I would not survive without them.

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Rosalind McGill's avatar

Truly man’s best friend! We have a cat we adopted when our friend went into assisted living. She was going to euthanize him if she couldn’t find a good home for him. So much unconditional love!

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

I guess - beats humans any day of the week. I worry about all the animals that will need homes as the vaccinated folks pass away. I read this story about a lady who passed away and they didn’t discover her for two weeks. Her little dog starved to death and was found laying beside here. Just horrible.

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Kathryn von lintzgy's avatar

That is exactly my daily life I feel imposter syndrome I am in the world but not part of it I speak little nowadays I avoid engaging in conversations I stand back and listen in disbelief that all around me can't see and I see it in technicolour surround sound.

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

You are a stranger in a strange land. The movie is playing and you have been put into it without a part to play. You are floating through a bad dream unable to speak or change anything. All of this is surreal and is what nightmares are made of.

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Bandit's avatar

Lawrence, Grab your little furry angels on Earth and hug them as tight as they'll let you, thank God for their presence. They are light and love.

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

Yes they are Bandit.... and thanks. I would not make it without them. The feelings that everywhere are very distressing. I have to stay away from it all. My dogs are my saviors and my light and my love from above.

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Bandit's avatar

I know, Lawrence. Mine are, too. I have 4 also. 2 are slowly dying. Maybe 6 months. I'm not sure I'll be able to take it alone.

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

I know I wouldn't make it... This shit is over-the-top crazy.

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Duchess's avatar

Bandit I have two cats, not allowed to have one more animal. I am actually going to look at a house tomorrow that is expensive for 750 square feet, but I would love to have a dog again. (and chickens...they are just pure entertainment).

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Bandit's avatar

Duchess, I wish you the best with getting the house. 🙏 FYI, no matter the size, they're all too expensive. 😏 I live in a neighborhood, I want chickens so bad, I can't stand it, but no way. 😢 I love to watch the chickens run around in yards when I see them. I can't imagine being able to watch them all day. What a hoot! Plus "free" eggs! Yum! (And redtail hawks and coyotes. 😖)

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

Good for you - we also have 3 adopted cats and bird.

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Good morning “Standing in the Breach” comrade. I signed up for a year. I was thinking maybe month to month, since a year from now we could be halfway around the world, anchored in a quite cove in Malaysia, with no internet access and trying to forget the carnage we left behind.

But, then again, if we feel the need to do that there will be way more to be concerned about the my Substack subscriptions. LOL.

We’ve been back aboard since 4 April. Been a cold spring in MI. Lots of projects on the list as we have decided to prep and refit the boat as if we were heading to sea again in the fall. Likely we won’t, as Gail’s parents are still alive, both clearly jab injured, one with cancer and severe memory loss. The other with fast onset dementia. So we don’t feel that we should leave, but we have decided we will leave if the need arises.

I hope to find time later this summer to start doing some writing…maybe some stories about the crazy things we have seen, done, and have had happen over the past 45 years sailing together and the decade plus living on board full time. It’s funny because of other things I have written I’ve had about 40 people sign up for my newsletter. But I’ve yet to pen any words! Lol.

All right. I need to get to work. The 15HP Yamaha on our dinghy needs some serious attention. Blessings to you from the crew on S/V Blessings. Eric and Gail.

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

You make me smile and laugh in the middle of Illinois, wishing I to was on the water in a far away land fixing the outboard and sheltering from the sun. I'm glad you are on my ship of fools and misfits.... Stay safe... stay happy and don't let a Red Snapper smack you in the eye. You should write.... make sure I know about it. I will subscribe.

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Indeed! If you go to @Pelican5077 on YT there are 2 videos from 2011. One is very short like 20 seconds from a day of nasty weather. Turn the sound up to hear the slamming.

The other is a couple minutes of our boat sailing on Lake Huron in 2011…this was our final 6 week shakedown before we took off for good.

We made the decision to not document our adventures. That is why no more content was ever posted. We knew too many people who spent more time writing, taking, and editing videos than they did actually taking in the fact that they were doing something 100s of millions of people could only dream about. They became slaves to a schedule. We had no interest in any of that, preferring to be off the radar and taking in the adventure for nobody’s edification than our own.

But we did keep a log and have a books worth of stories, going back to 1980. So you never know, I may get to it someday.

My dad wrote 2 books after age 85 and was working on the 3rd when he died in September 2021.

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

I just finished ghost writing it a short book. It was a lot of work. But I am really happy with the outcome. You should write your stories down. The next generation might be interested in seeing the world through your eyes? You know - stories about the world before the genocide and dark age began.

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MoodyP's avatar

Thanks for the encouragement. Our two boys are now 36 and 31. They both had their first sailing experience prior to age 1. We spent at least 4 weeks cruising in Lake Huron and Lake Michigan every summer, and every weekend from early April through late October on the boat. They have both told me I should write some stories for them to preserve the memories after we are gone.

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

Thanks for the Subscription... It was very generous... I am not very well off, so it really helps me. You should not force yourself to write. You should just let yourself write if it fits into the context of your life. I think writers are first and foremost just great "thinkers" and what they write is just a byproduct of what they think or what they have been thinking about or what they have experienced. So with than being said.... I have a poem from the book of poems I published a couple years ago that explains what I mean. It is specific to poets but I think it applies to anyone who writes.

"Wagons of words"

Poets are like boiling pots

And their poems

Are what boils out

With words rising up

And spilling over

Escaping to the outside

And then to the world.

Poets read their own tea leaves

Their words can fly

It’s like they kiss the sky

And return a part of it

To the tips of our lips.

Poetry illuminates the psyche of the poet

Shining a light on their journeys

As they move back and forth

Jangling and tangling

From one world to the next

Returning with truth and beauty

Pulling their wagons of words.

Anyway thanks again... from the cornfields of Illinois. All the best to you and yours.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Great poem and not cryptic.

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You are most welcome. Although we have recovered (somewhat and mostly because we had a boat and could sail away and live on very little money, relatively speaking) I understand the issue. Having lost our business and our house in 2009-2010, plus a lot of money to boot, we look at the world much differently than we did back in our “glory” days. We realize now how blessed we were then, but also how wasteful and cavalier we were too. The real blessing came when we realized we had an option that none of our similarly situated contemporaries had…we had a boat. When we first bought a bought in 1983 we named her Blessings. Subsequent boats kept the same name. It became clear to us finally in 2010 that God had a plan, and the boat was part of the plan, and the name made perfect sense. And the sequence of events that occurred in mid 2008 when we bought our current boat is one of those “stories” that makes zero sense (even to us) unless it is paired with the totality of the circumstances that we found ourselves in 12-24 months down the road.

Thanks for sharing the poem. Pretty cool.

I have an idea that is percolating in my brain. I’ll let it brew up for a bit and see where it goes. Stay tuned, as my youngest says.

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Teresa Tannahill's avatar

You nailed it as usual, Lawrence. Everyone knows someone. Sadly, not everyone knows that they know. We’re either approaching a critical mass, a flashpoint of anger and fear... or a saturation point of apathy and resignation. Same goes here in the UK as there in the States. A lot of folks have ‘got it’ on some level. Not much enthusiasm for the boosters. Most common response is, “I’m not having any more.” Nobody wants to talk about it, though.

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

Thanks - I wrote a piece about this critical mass thing. https://open.substack.com/pub/lawrencebutts/p/count-down-to-the-mass-hysteria-of?r=gjogf&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

I think we are starting to get to the flash point. Last week I saw a post about 2 members of one family dying a week apart. One death was child. When people start to lose multiple members of their families and they realize that “they” will be next…all hell is going break loose. They will be out for the blood of the people who did this. I would not want to be a doctor who insisted on vaccinating children who suddenly ALL die. The common thing to do during the Black Plague to “guilty” people was shut them in a house and then burn it down. We could see this or worse as this death spiral continues.

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Duchess's avatar

I hope you are correct....I do not see it...I think apathy and helplessness will be what we continue to see...and more reliance on "the govt"....but I live in a blue state...it is really starting to get to me.

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

I am in Illinois (downstate) so.. I feel your pain. It is maddening to watch - people just so clueless. And we have to watch it all happen. We know how this nightmare will end. Which is the problem. The injected walk around in a fog of ignorance as their veins fill up and hearts decay. We just want it end.

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Retired Librarian's avatar

Living in a blue state is hell.

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Duchess's avatar

It is...it used to be more pink....and it is home...but I really need to think about moving to a red state...I will miss my home/the ocean/the seasons/the architecture...but.....I hear that song in my head "she is gone, but she used to be mine".

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

I live in a wooden house.

At least I don't have a doctor or politician neighbour.

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Flying Cristina's avatar

I just moved back to the west coast from the east coast. It’s weird, seeing people ride bikes with masks on, walking down the street and interacting in stores and people don’t acknowledge you, they look right through you. Used to be friendlier over here. Agreed on the frailty I’m seeing. Most people are unhealthy, it’s rare to see health.

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

Yup - you got heavy Cult of Covid brainwashing. These folks live in fear. They fear the air, people and even door knobs. Many are chronically ill with infections they can’t clear from their bodies. And finally, they are brain damaged by their immune systems attack on the Spike Proteins attached to their brain cells. These folks are not coming back to the world we live in. They are the dead walking.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

They are too sick to think clearly.

So they do not hear what we tell them.

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

Yup.. their reality is different from our reality. It’s like we are living together but from we are from different dimensions.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Its okay if you just talk about the weather. LOL

Thank goodness for Substack, even though it's only allowed to exist because there is so much of it that is controlled.

Smaller stacks like yours are probably not infiltrated yet.

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

I don’t know. I have been banned everywhere else. I refuse to let anyone infringe on my right to free speech. If SubStack tries it, I will be gone pretty quickly. I just don’t care anymore. I made the mistake of going back on Twitter. I was punished for satire. I promptly deleted my account again. I was an early adopter to Twitter and used to teach it to business groups. I deleted an account I had for years. Went back on Twitter when Musk took over. Then deleted my new account a couple weeks ago. I am not being treated like a child who needs to be disciplined into behaving “correctly”. They can kiss my old white ass…

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

LOL re the kissing.

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jj's avatar

I know. There is a dichotomy here. But they do speak fervently of ushering in AI robots to replace us, the "useless eaters" in their minds, and coined by their Committee of 300 member, Bertrand Russell.

I think you'll be interested in the following interview with the late Alan Watts, a well studied man on these things and the people behind this mess. I have also included the links to a substantial books he refers to and its forerunner from these planners.

https://www.sheepfarm.co.uk/videos/alan-watt-understanding-the-control-2010/

https://ia601702.us.archive.org/34/items/the-first-global-revolution-a-report-by-the-council-of-the-club-of-rome-alexande/The%20First%20Global%20Revolution_%20A%20Report%20by%20the%20Council%20of%20the%20Club%20of%20Rome%20-%20Alexander%20King,%20Bertrand%20Schneider%20-%20-%20Random%20House,%20Inc.%20_%20Pantheon%20Books%20(1991).pdf

https://ia902201.us.archive.org/9/items/TheLimitsToGrowth/TheLimitsToGrowth.pdf

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

I have read ALL of Alan Watts books. AI is most certainly a threat or it could also be a blessing. It could be the beginning of a new world or the end of human race. Thanks - I will check this out.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Is there any particular Alan Watts book that springs to your mind Lawrence?

Thank you.

I'm not finding the right Alan Watts, there's several of them. LOL

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

I read them as he published them. So I kind of grew with him. He was an Anglican priest who left the church and then discovered Taoism. He is very good at explaining the Tao to western minds. Our language is not very well suited for this philosophy. The book “What is Tao” is very good at explaining it. “Nature, Man, and Women was one of my favorites. Either one of these books are great to start with. I also recommend the Jane English version of the Tao Te Ching. Alan felt is one of the best translations.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Thank you for the background on Alan Watts.

I'm not sure that I have the right state of mind to study Taoism however.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

jj, any idea when Alan Watts made these recordings?

The video says 2010 but it seems that Alan died 1973, if I've gotten the right person.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Now I see what's happening.

There's an Alan Watt, and an Alan Watts.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Thanks jj.

Appreciated the Alan Watts podcasts.

Am looking to see if he's done any more as he obviously knows even more about the perps for instance.

Have not looked at your other links yet.

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Datagal's avatar

Lawrence, you describe the exact thoughts I have every day! It’s like a clock is slowly ticking in my head- tick, tick, tick- as I await the next bad news. I drove by a sickly jabbed friend’s home today who lives alone, and thought she could be dead inside and worried about her dog. I later saw her garage open and was relieved.

Like you and your dogs, my two cats give me such comfort. They live in the present and are just happy, playful and follow me everywhere! We call it “fur therapy”!

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

I know that we need anything right now that can help maintain our sanity. The guy with the dogs in the post goes to the same dog park that I go to everyday with one of our dogs. He has 6 big dogs that he brings everyday like clockwork. I have watched him go from looking younger than me to now he is looking older than me. He has the Pfizer limp now and he can hardly get from this van to the bench inside the park. The dogs are all well behaved and they love coming to the park. I am relieved every day I see them now. I don't know what is going to happen to all his dogs. I worry when I don't see him. Yes this is our life now... and emotional rollercoaster that never seems to stop. Take care and hug some fur for me....

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Well, I certainly agree with you about dog time. Our late dog (who sadly passed almost exactly a year ago) and our current dog, have helped immensely to keep my wife and I sane during the last three years of global mass psychosis. We are also very fortunate to have a few red-pilled friends.

But I'm going to take a different stance on the outcome of all this. I agree that we may be approaching a tipping point where the normies begin to realise what has happened to them. But I don't believe the situation to be hopeless. Once people realise the potentially lethal effects of the jab, there will indeed be incandescent anger (and summary justice may well be served on the perpetrators, especially in the USA where you guys are armed to the teeth.)

But there will also be a global search for remedies to mitigate the worst of the jabs' effects. We already have some very promising options; see this for example -

https://youtu.be/TiWjleODn4M

Thus, the death and disability toll may turn out to be far less than we fear it might be.

In addition, I believe that the human collective unconscious will drive a huge shift - the "Great Awakening" as many call it. I have followed the ideas of Dr Rupert Sheldrake for many years; he believes that evolution is not simply a matter of random mutation and natural selection, but that the collective mind of a species is able to shift evolutionary changes in a direction which favours survival, when that species faces an existential crisis. (He calls this "morphic resonance.")

I simply cannot put this any better than to quote the poet Christopher Fry, whose poem "A Sleep of Prisoners" made an immense impression on me as a youngster; I didn't really know why. Now I believe it to have been a kind of premonition:

The human heart can go the lengths of God…

Dark and cold we may be, but this

Is no winter now. The frozen misery

Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move;

The thunder is the thunder of the floes,

The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring.

Thank God our time is now when wrong

Comes up to face us everywhere,

Never to leave us till we take

The longest stride of soul we ever took.

Affairs are now soul size.

The enterprise

Is exploration into God.

Where are you making for? It takes

So many thousand years to wake,

But will you wake for pity’s sake!

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

Interesting - well we need to get cracking on mitigation efforts because damage to heart cells and damage to brain cells is irreversible. Those who have in their bodies the little factories that are producing the Spike Proteins need to have them removed (yesterday). Or they will have damage that will significantly shorten their lives. And yes there are mitigation strategies popping up everywhere. This is all good.. but we are (for the most part) two years into having “the injections” inside humans. Some humans have by now “many” injections in their bodies. Further damage should be stopped. But even stopping it now does not guarantee that grievous damage has not already been done. We have a medical establish that denies there are any problems caused by the vaccine. We have a brainwashed vaccinated population who still believe the vaccine is “safe and effective”. And we have a small group of unvaccinated folks screaming at the world to stop injecting this poison into people. So I am not sure where that leaves us? I have said before, we need an all out effort to find ways to help/fix the injected before it is too late. That was a year ago. Very little has been done. I constantly look for something to be optimistic about. I never find anything. But I hope you are right. I am not wanting to spend what is left of my retirement years watching a mass extinction event devastate the planet. I will check Christopher Fry. I write poetry. It is what I prefer to write but no one wants to read poetry anymore.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Any single example can always be given the benefit of the doubt.

My neighbour who for the past eighteen months won't leave the house alone.

Her long hair all cut short and her gait wide legged and slow as her husband escorts her to her appointments.

My friend having rheumatology treatment, whatever that is, and feeling okay about it as she says that the "Listener" magazine has rheumatology articles every issue for the past few months. "Could it be the injections?", I ask.

"Oh no, nothing to do with that."

No thank you, I do not want to have coffee with her any time soon.

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

Horrible. She is completely captured by the system that intends to milk her for money until she is dead. She is gone and not coming back. The more these people “believe” in the system, the more they are hooked into it. We have a friend right now who is injected and is having this problem and that health problem. She trusts her doctors and the system. We don’t even bring up the injection as a possible cause for her ongoing problems. I have a detox regime that I could give her if she ever gets to the point where she questions what has been done to her. We would like to seriously “red pill” her. At this point she would probably think we are insane. So we just listen to her and hope she starts to wake up.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

That rheumatology victim friend was a nurse then did a law degree.

Such people are confident in their own smartness.

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Yup... she is embedded in the system. To be successful in our education system you must be conformist. You must do as you are told and pass all their tests about your conformity. Passing allows you entrance into higher incomes and more toys. The system worked for her. Except "this time" the system was using her as an experimental animal. She willingly complied as she always does. Conformity = Success in her mind. She would never dream of "not" following orders. Which of course is her downfall now.

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Having a law degree gained her a lot of respect. Law is a tough university course with a high cull rate.

In my street there's a preponderance of lawyers and they are all very establishment, so yes, conforming to their idea of lawyerliness 24/7. Especially the one who is hoping to be a judge.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

She is off to do a course at Oxford university next month, and very quick to tell me so.

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

Like that will matter? Yup - she is goose stepping her way into a box with a lid. Maybe she can get all her degrees carved in her tombstone?

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Debbie's avatar

Thank you Lawrence - this was really poignant.

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

Thanks - I like the word poignant. It’s not used much anymore. Have a good week.

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Debbie's avatar

Thank you Sir! I guess I'm showing my age here... Wishing you a good week too.

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Santino's avatar

Hell I just check it and it was me that messed up. Sorry.

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jj's avatar

Awesome. I came upon Watts in recent years through a friend. He has amazing retention and knowledge of pertinent issues and the players. I'm glad to hear you are more than aware of him, and I hope we are not the only ones. It's a shame he passed. I think of some others I wish were still around. Thank you for what you do, Lawrence. Keep it up.

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Lawrence Butts's avatar

Wow - Alan… I could write a lot about him. An amazing man. Kind of one of my intellectual heroes. Yes we have lost some of our best minds. Keep the faith jj and don’t take any wooden nickels from anyone wanting to put needle in your arm…

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